英语练习题5则范文
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Every year thousands of people are arrested and taken to court for shop-lifting.In Britain alone, about HK$3,000,000’s worth of goods are stolen from shops every week.This amounts to something like HK$150 million a year, and represents about 4 per cent of the shops’ total stock.As a result of this “shrinkage” as the shops call it, the honest public has to pay higher prices.
Shop-lifters can be divided into three main categories: the professionals, the deliberate amateur, and the people who just can’t help themselves.The professionals do not pose much of a problem for the store detectives, who, assisted by closed circuit television, two-way mirrors and various other technological devices, can usually cope with them.The professionals tend to go for high value goods in parts of the shops where security measure
s are tightest.And, in any case, they account for only a small percentage of the total losses due to shop-lifting.
The same applies to the deliberate amateur who is, so to speak, a professional in training.Most of them get caught sooner or later, and they are dealt with severely by the courts.
The real problem is the person who gives way to a sudden temptation and is in all other respects an honest and law-abiding citizen.Contrary to what one would expect, this kind of shop-lifter is rarely poor.He does not steal because he needs the goods and cannot afford to pay for them.He steals because he simply cannot stop himself.And there are countless others who, because of age, sickness or plain absent-mindedness, simply forget to pay for what they take from the shops.When caught, all are liable to prosecution, and the decision whether to send for the police or not is in the hands of the store manager.
In order to prevent the quite incredible growth in ship-lifting offences, some stores, in fact,
are doing their best to separate the thieves from the confused by prohibiting customers from taking bags into the store.However, what is most worrying about the whole problem is, perhaps, that it is yet another instance of the innocent majority being penalized and inconvenienced because of the actions of a small minority.It is the aircraft hijack situation in another form.Because of the possibility of one passenger in a million boarding an aircraft with a weapon, the other 999,999 passengers must subject themselves to searches and delays.Unless the situation in the shops improves, in ten years’ time we may all have to subject ourselves to a body-search every time we go into a store to buy a tin of beans!
70.Why does the honest public have to pay higher prices when they go to the shops? A.There is a “shrinkage” in market values. B.Many goods are not available. C.Goods in many shops lack variety. D.There are many cases of shop-lifting.
71.The third group of people steal things because they ____ A.are mentally ill.B.are quite absent-minded.
C.can not resist the temptation.D.can not afford to pay for goods. 72.According to the passage, law-abiding citizens ____. A.can possibly steal things because of their poverty B.can possibly take away goods without paying C.have never stolen goods from the supermarkets D.are difficult to be caught when they steal things
73.Which of the following statements is NOT true about the main types of shop-lifting? A.A big percentage of the total losses are caused by the professionals. B.The deliberate amateurs will be punished severely if they get caught. C.People would expect that those who can’t help themselves are poor. D.The professionals don’t cause a lot of trouble to the store detectives. 74.The aircraft hijack situation is used in order to show that ____. A.“the professionals do not pose much of a problem for the stores” B.some people “somply forget to pay for what they take from the shops” C.“the honest public has to pay higher prices” D.the third type of shop-lifters are dangerous people
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My bones have been aching again, as they often do in humid weather.They ache like hist
ory: things long done with, that still remain as pain.When the ache is bad enough it keeps me from sleeping.Every night I yearn for sleep, I strive for it;yet it flutters on ahead of me like a curtain.There are sleeping pills, of course, but the doctor has warned me against them.
Last night, after what seemed hours of damp turmoil, I got up and crept slipperless down the staris, feeling my way in the faint street light that came through the window.Once safely arrived at the bottom, I walked into the kitchen and looked around in the refrigerator.There was nothing much I wanted to eat: the remains of a bunch of celery, a blue-tinged heel of bread, a lemon going soft.I’ve fallen into the habits of the solitary;my meals are snatched and random.Furtive snacks, furtive treats and picnics.I made do with some peanut butter, scooped directly from the jar with a forefinger: why dirty a spoon? 英语练习题
Standing there with the jar in one hand and my finger in my mouth, I had the feeling that someone was about to walk into the room — some other woman, the unseen, valid owner — and ask me what in hell I was doing in her kitchen.I’ve had it before, the sense that eve
n in the course of my most legitimate and daily actions — peeling a banana, brushing my teeth — I am trespassing.
At night the house was more than ever like a stranger’s.I wandered through the front room, the dining room, the parlour, hand on the wall for balance.My various possessions were floating in their own pools of shadow, denying my ownership of them.I looked them over with a burglar’s eye, deciding what might be worth the risk of stealing, what on the other hand I would leave behind.Robbers would take the obvious things — the silver teapot that was my grandmother’s, perhaps the hand-painted china.The television set.Nothing I really want.75.The author could not fall asleep because ____. A.it was too damp in the bedroom B.she had run out of sleeping pills C.she was in very poor health D.she felt very hungry
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